Some wanted excitement, some liked killing and made no pretence about it, some were escaping from their past, some were too eccentric for the ranks; all had to be fit, alert, crafty, ruthless if required and dedicated to the mission.
Given the necessity to operate nights and irregular hours, weekends and holidays under a wide range of physical conditions and service demands, we must explore every reasonable avenue to ensure employees are fit, alert, and well-rested.
To determine the value of routinely collecting worker absence data as part of this kind of surveillance and to assess a threshold level of possible alert cases, directors of six major Italian hospitals were asked for the number of cases that fit the alert definition in 2003.
A relaxed, confident, physically fit, mentally alert Tiger?
He is fit and alert, with a youthful black brush cut and rectangular wire-rim glasses that creep down his nose.
In last season's closing episodes, the physically fit, mentally alert Mr. Bartlet wrestled with how his chances for re-election might be affected by public knowledge of his ailment, which, until then, had been known to only a small number of aides.
Into his 100s, he was fit and alert, taking no medication, seeing without glasses and still driving, until the family insisted he stop at age 102.
"It keeps me in condition, because I'm training hard all year round; it's cardiovascular and strength training and keeps me physically fit and mentally alert," he said.
True enough, but while one may readily entertain such a gloomy thought, there are, this author says, some things we can do to keep our brains fit, our minds alert and our defenses against memory loss boosted.
Accordingly, the sensor offers the potential for exploitation as an assistive tool to both evaluate prosthetic socket fitting in clinical settings and alert amputees in home settings of excessive loading at the stump socket interface, effectively preventing stump tissue breakdown at an early stage.
